The Ongoing History Podcast: 10 Unusual Things About Nirvana

Nirvana is one of those bands where it seems we know everything… when they broke through with the “Nevermind” album in 1991 and 1992, there was a rush to learn everything we could about them… and then we Kurt died — which happened roughly at the same time the internet began to be a thing with the general public — that interest exploded…

Now, in the decades since nirvana ceased to exist, study of the band, its history, its individual members and its influence can best be described as scholarship… that’s how deep we are into the band… so what’s there left to learn, really…

While, you might be surprised… here are ten unusual and little known things about one of the best documented bands in the history of rock…

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